Literary Notes

Harpcr's "UYckly ÍOÍ July 22(1, (out July lOthl, i-s mi exceptionally attractive numlwr. Au article by Joseph H. Chonte on the life and career of the late Judge Blatchford, and a vigórenla articte ontitlcil "A Bnbetltute fof SHver," by Horace Wliitc, are timely nnd important features of tfaii issue. Tlicre tg alsi :n article by .Major StaiiliiLT. chief englneer of the Mis.sissi])]ii Levee district, on the recent floods, and w damatif they have done, with au explanatlon of the Levee systrm. The number aleo contains a page of illusti-ations imi tbe linv.-i cyclone ; another of II innlayaii lKirscincn, with nn artc!c by Oolooel 'J'. A. Dodge, V. S. A.; and a thiird page ui Ulustratlona oí of iin' üussian Fieet now ia our waicr.-. stiu another pa'i1 is devoted to tilt' CïllioagO ]'irc.